List of Famous people who died in 1926

Edward Willis Scripps, was an American newspaper publisher and, together with his sister Ellen Browning Scripps, founder of The E. W. Scripps Company, a diversified media conglomerate, and United Press news service. It became United Press International (UPI) when International News Service (INS) merged with United Press in 1958. The E. W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University is named for him.

Geneviève Halévy, later Geneviève Bizet and Geneviève Straus, was a French salonnière. She inspired Marcel Proust as a model for the Duchesse de Guermantes and Odette de Crécy in À la recherche du temps perdu.

Alphonse Louis Nicolas Borrelly was a French astronomer.

Henry Brougham Guppy was a British surgeon, geologist, botanist and photographer. He was awarded the Linnean Medal in 1917.

Henri-Camille Marcel called Henry Marcel, was a 19th–20th-century French senior official, general administrator of the Bibliothèque nationale de France from 1905 to 1913.

Nikola Pašić was a Serbian and Yugoslav politician and diplomat who was a leading political figure for almost 40 years. He was the leader of the People's Radical Party and, among other posts, was twice a mayor of Belgrade, several times Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Serbia and Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.

Adolphe Déchenaud was a French painter who specialized in Biblical/historical scenes and portraits.